Ditte Ejlerskov - The Cult of Oxytocin

With her exhibition "The Cult of Oxytocin", Ditte Ejlerskov creates a meditative total installation that is preoccupied with the cleansing properties of art, the healing power of colours and the eternal battle between the hormones oxytocin and adrenaline.

"The Cult of Oxytocin" is the first exhibition of the calendar year in Nikolaj Kunsthal. Ditte Ejlerskov’s exhibition occupies the entire house and offers duotone paintings, meditative video projections, woven rugs, virtual and 3D printed sculptures which are an elaboration of the Uffizi Gallery’s famous, antique marble sculpture The Wrestlers.

The virtual sculpture is a piece of crypto art – a so-called NFT - which has recently been bought by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, the very first museum in Denmark to buy a digital 3D sculpture for its permanent collection. For some years now, Ditte Ejlerskov’s preoccupation with a virtual universe has been central to her artistic work.

The press kit for the Ditte Ejlerskov exhibition can be downloaded here.

Where: Upper Galleri + Lower Galleri

When: February 12 – May 8 2022

About Ditte Ejlerskov

Ditte Ejlerskov graduated in 2009 from Malmö Art Academy with a detour to Cooper Union School of Art in New York. She has previously exhibited at Röda Sten Konsthall and Malmö Konsthall in Sweden, Kristianstad Konsthall in Norway, Kunstmuseum Bonn in Germany, Cneai in Chatou, France, at Amos Anderson Art Museum in Finland as well as, among others, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg and Arken in Ishøj, Denmark.